Dear Prime Minister: Joan Morris on Surviving a Genocide, Finding Her Voice, and Wisdom of Elders
This episode, like many others, is about the power and beauty of the human spirit. Yet this episode is not like any other.
Joan Morris is an elder of the Songhees Nation of the Lekwungen People on Vancouver Island in British Columbia . As with many of her people, she has suffered greatly in the name of colonialization, and now she advocates for survivors of the draconian system that included residential schools and Indian hospitals.
Joan is the last surviving person to have lived on T’ches Island, known in English as Chatham Island, part of a small archipelago located a few kilometres off the…
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